“We wanted to create a new snow bike based on the idea that both skis and mountain bike technology had been through huge evolutions and surely it must be time to bring these together with a functional and appealing snow bike,” Buckley says.

Compatible with chairlifts, the service is suitable for adaptive and able-bodied skiers of all abilities, he adds.

“It’s so easy to use, some people have said that it’s 80 per cent easier than skiing.”

Buckley introduced his bikes to resorts in Japan and North America last year and has a “big list of future developments to evolve into the next generation”.